Body Electric (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Body Electric
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Steve Roach and Vir Unis


Released = 1999
Recorded =
Genre = Ambient
Length = 56:54
Label = Projekt Records
Producer = Steve Roach and Vir Unis
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ifxuakokjm3x link]
*"Alternative Press" favorable [http://www.steveroach.com/Press/review.php?id=23 May 1999]
*Piero Scaruffi 6/10 [http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/roach.html link]
Chronology = Steve Roach
Last album = "" (1999)
This album = "Body Electric" (1999)
Next album = "" (1999)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Vir Unis
Type = studio
Last album = "The Ambient Expanse" (1998)
This album = "Body Electric" (1999)
Next album = "The Drift Inside" (1999)

"Body Electric" (1999) is a collaborative album by ambient artists Steve Roach and Vir Unis. The music is a unique blend of smooth ambient textures, techno rhythms and various acoustic and natural recordings.

The artwork on the album was created by computer artist Steven Rooke. Instead of a booklet, this CD comes with four cards. The first card contains the front cover and on the reverse side the liner notes while the other three cards feature a panel of artwork on each side.

Track listing

#”Born of Fire” (9:12)
#”Pure Expansion” (10:16)
#”Mind Link” (7:07)
#”Gene Pool” (5:40)
#”Synaptic Gap” (1:56)
#”Homunculus Within” (4:15)
#”Bloodstreaming” (3:10)
#”Solar Tribe” (4:13)
#”The New Dream” (3:58)
#”Cave of the Heart” (7:00)

Personnel

*Steve Roach (analog and digital synthesizers, percussion, voice, treatments)
*Vir Unis (synthesizers, treatments)
*Omar Faruk Tekbilek (ney on “Born of Fire”)
*Roger King (bass on “Born of Fire” and “The New Dream”, EBow guitar on “Born of Fire”)
*Linda Kohanov (voices on “Pure Expansion”)

ee also

*Steve Roach
*Vir Unis
*Ambient music
*Electronic music